Osterbur
Osterbur was a church village in Harlingerland , a region on the North Sea coast in East Frisia . The village was about 400 meters north of Westerbur and together with it and Middelsbur formed a row of terps on a former embankment of the Dornum Bay . This was settled long before the dyke was built. The row of warps was certainly created around the birth of Christ. The place name means the farmers in the east .
The All Saints Flood from October 31 to November 2, 1532 tore the chain of dykes in front of Osterbur. The dyke line was probably withdrawn as far as the Westerbur terp in 1570. On his map of East Frisia from 1592, David Fabricius noted Osterbur in the Watt. The village was already abandoned and sunk by then. But still in 1684 Balthasar Arend Osterbur mentions : “Behind the current sea dike into the Watt towards Mittelbuhr in the north there was previously a church, called Osterbuhr, which was torn away by the force of the water, from which the large shotguns and foundation stones can still be attached when the waters are low in the Watt Obviously, part of the old Osterbur district remained behind the new dike line. The field name Osterbur has been retained for these remains to this day.
literature
- Kai Niederhöfer: Archaeological sites in the East Frisian Wadden Sea. Settlement history of a submerged landscape until 1570. Rahden / Wstf. 2016, pp. 198–208, ISBN 978-3-89646-938-0 (= contributions to archeology in Lower Saxony, volume 18).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel Heinze: The development of the Dornumer Bay . In: Marschenrat for the promotion of research in the coastal area of the North Sea (Hrsg.): Messages of the Marschenrat for the promotion of research in the coastal area of the North Sea . Edition 53/2016. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b Axel Heinze and Lies Herdes: Osterbur . In: Ostfriesische Landschaft (Hrsg.): The field names collection of the Ostfriesische Landschaft . Retrieved June 7, 2016.
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 7 ° 30 ′ 34.5 ″ E ,